Corrosion Short Courses: API 573 Inspection of Fired Boilers and Heaters, presented by NACE certified Corrosion Specialist , WebCorr Corrosion Consulting Services.

API 573 Inspection of Fired Boilers and Heaters

Course Overview

This 5-day training course covers the inspection practices for fired boilers and process heaters (furnaces) used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. This training is focused to improve equipment reliability and plant safety by discussing the operating variables which impact reliability, and to ensure that inspection practices obtain the appropriate data, both on-stream and off-stream, to assess current and future performance of the equipment.

This corrosion short course is available for in-house training, online and distance learning worldwide. It can also be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Course Outline

1. INTRODUCTION

2. CORROSION AND METALLURGY

3. DEFINITIONS

4. COMMON HEATER AND BOILER DESIGNS
4.1 Types of Heaters
4.2 Types of Boilers

5. HEATER AND BOILER MECHANICAL RELIABILITY
5.1 Reliability Programs
5.2 Safety
5.3 Purpose of Inspection
5.4 Inspection of Fired Boilers
5.5 Inspector Qualifications

6. DETERIORATION MECHANISMS
6.1 Deterioration of Heater Tubes
6.2 Deterioration of Boiler Tubes
6.3 Deterioration Mechanisms of Other Components

7. FREQUENCY AND TIMING OF INSPECTIONS
7.1 General
7.2 Boiler Inspection Frequency
7.3 Heater Inspection Frequency

8. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS, PREPARATORY WORK, AND CLEANING
8.1 Safety
8.2 General Preparatory Work
8.3 Precautions to Avoid Polythionic Acid Stress Corrosion Cracking in Stainless Steel Tubes
8.4 Cleaning

9. OUTAGE INSPECTION PROGRAMS
9.1 General
9.2 Visual Inspection of Heater Coils
9.3 Wall Thickness Measurements
9.4 Tube Diameter/Circumference/Sag/Bow Measurements
9.5 Pit Depth Measurements
9.6 Intelligent Pigs/In-line Devices
9.7 Radiographic Examination
9.8 Borescope/Videoprobe
9.9 Hardness Measurements
9.10 Dye Penetrant and Magnetic Particle Testing
9.11 In-situ Metallography/Replication
9.12 Detailed Examination and Destructive Testing of Tube Samples
9.13 Testing of Tubeskin Thermocouples
9.14 Magnetic Test for Carburization
9.15 Hammer Testing
9.16 Inspection of Reformer Tubes

10. BOILER OUTAGE INSPECTION
10.1 General
10.2 Piping
10.3 Drums
10.4 Water Headers
10.5 Superheater Header
10.6 Tubes

11. ON-STREAM INSPECTION PROGRAMS
11.1 General
11.2 Typical Inspection Activities
11.3 External Tube Cleaning
11.4 Pre-shutdown Inspection

12. TUBE RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT
12.1 General
12.2 Minimum Thickness and Stress Rupture
12.3 Creep Rupture Life

13. METHOD OF INSPECTION FOR FOUNDATIONS, SETTINGS, AND OTHER APPURTENANCES
13.1 Foundations
13.2 Structural Supports
13.3 Setting, Exterior, and Casing
13.4 Refractory Linings and Insulation
13.5 Tube Supports
13.6 Visual Inspection of Auxiliary Equipment
13.7 Stacks

14. REPAIRS
14.1 Heaters
14.2 Boilers
14.3 Materials Verification

15. RECORDS AND REPORTS

16. END OF COURSE EXAMINATION

Who Should Attend

Designers, Inspection Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Plant Inspectors, Mechanical Engineers, and Process Engineers in the chemical process, refining and petrochemical industries.

Registration for This Corrosion Course

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In-House Training Corrosion Courses/On-Site Training Corrosion Courses

If you are concerned with corrosion in your company, in-house training or on-site training is a great solution to train a group of employees from design, production, operation, quality assurance, inspection and maintenance, and technical sales and support on corrosion control and corrosion prevention technology. The contents of all our corrosion courses can be customized to fit your organization's needs.

There is no limit to the number of participants required for in-house training corrosion courses. We conduct the in-house training corrosion course at your company's premises worldwide, and at a time convenient to your company.

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Corrosion Course-On-Demand

All our publicly scheduled corrosion short courses are conducted once a year. However, you do not need to wait for one year if you have missed any of the publicly scheduled corrosion courses as we have this unique corrosion course-on-demand scheme: we will conduct the course just for you (on an one-on-one basis) or for a small group from your company at a time and in a location convenient to you. This option costs significantly less than a full-scale in-house or on-site corrosion training program.

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Online Corrosion Courses and Distance Learning Corrosion Courses

All our corrosion short courses are available for online or offline distance learning. You can start an online corrosion course at any time and learn at your own comfortable pace and schedule, whenever and wherever you are. You have around-the-clock access to the interactive and media-rich course materials, virtual labs, course instructions and course assessments. Discussions and questions related to the corrosion courses are posted on the website or exchanged through email for a period up to 3 months. Video conferencing or instant messaging can also be arranged for discussions of course topics. For those who do not have ready access to internet, we can send you our online course materials on a CD-ROM, or DVD, or USB flash drive for offline distance learning.

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Corrosion Course-On-Webex

Webex is hosted by Cisco, a product purpose-built for real-time web communications. If you are an existing user of Webex, or if you are willing to experience the power of Webex, we can conduct the course for you over Webex with audio and video presentations and interactions with the course instructor and other course attendees in real-time. It is just like the physical classroom settings that everyone can interact with each other. Your questions will be answered in real time by our instructor.

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PowerPoint Slides and Test Banks for Trainers, Instructors, Tutors, University Lecturers and Professors

If you are involved in teaching or training, you may wish to purchase a complete set of the trainer's package for this training course. The trainer's package comes complete with ready-to-use PowerPoint slides (fully editable) and test bank (with answer keys). These ready-to-use PowerPoint slides contain high quality color photographs, illustrations, animations, audio and video clips. The test bank contains questions conveniently grouped into four categories: (1) true or false, (2) multiple choice, (3) calculation, and (4) reasoning and open-ended discussions. The trainer's package is suitable for in-house training and university teaching (30 lecture hours). This is exactly the same package that WebCorr uses to deliver our current training course.

The one-time lump sum fee allows your organization to use the training package and also modify it. For example, your organization may modify the course contents and re-name/re-brand the course under your organization’s name. WebCorr only retains the copyright of the original PowerPoint slides and test banks.

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